A Temple University student on Tuesday defended his part in an antisemitic incident at a Barstool Sports bar in Philadelphia.
Mo Khan, 21, identified himself as the Temple student who posted a video of a woman who appears to be a server at Barstool Sansom Street in Center City Philadelphia holding a sign bearing an antisemitic message on Saturday.
In a video posted on X Tuesday night, Khan lashed out at Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, who is Jewish and has frequently posted about the incident to his millions of social media followers since the video went viral.
“They have no right to destroy my life over free speech and ultimately something that was an edgy joke,” he said in the video. “Frankly, they’re more worried about destroying and uprooting me than the thousands of people getting destroyed and uprooted in genocide.”
“That sign had no effect in terms of killing any Jews. However, Israel kills thousands of people on a daily basis,” he added. “Dave Portnoy and the greater Jewish community are acting as if they are the victims, when this whole time I am the victim.”
After posting the hateful video of the sign, Khan called himself a citizen journalist and shared information about a GiveSendGo fundraiser he started after the incident. He also urged Portnoy to apologize and asked for restitution.
“He is lynching me, absolutely canceling me in any way possible and ruining my life,” Khan said.
Portnoy, 48, posted a video of his own on social media on Tuesday night, where he accused Khan of initially taking responsibility for his part in the incident before backtracking. Portnoy also said he rescinded his offer to Khan and another person involved in the incident to send them to Auschwitz, the notorious German Nazi concentration camp in Poland, to learn about the Holocaust.
“You f—ing anti semitic piece of s—,” Portnoy, 48, said. “And I tried to show grace. … I tried to actually, now I feel dumb, to make it right. And now he does this video, blaming it on me.”
